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In August 1918, 233 different Democratic county conventions chose to support women's suffrage in Texas. [72] Cunningham began to lobby the United States Congress on a federal suffrage amendment. [73] [74] She was part of the team that helped convince President Woodrow Wilson to openly support women's suffrage in 1918. [61]
Travis County women register to vote in the Texas primary election in July 1918. This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Texas. Women's suffrage was brought up in Texas at the first state constitutional convention, which began in 1868. However, there was a lack of support for the proposal at the time to enfranchise women.
The right for women to vote in Texas was introduced by Titus Howard Mundine, a Republican and Unionist, at the Reconstruction-era Texas Constitutional Convention of 1868-69. [3] During the Convention, and Tunstall spoke gave a speech in support of universal suffrage at an Austin, Texas, meeting for women's suffrage.
The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the United States, at both the state and national levels, and was part of the worldwide movement towards women's suffrage and part of the wider women's rights movement. The first women's suffrage amendment was introduced in Congress in 1878.
The Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA) was an organization founded in 1903 to support white women's suffrage in Texas. It was originally formed under the name of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association (TWSA) and later renamed in 1916. TESA did allow men to join. [1]
Women may not always get the historical credit their male counterparts do, but as these women show, they were always there doing the work. With their fierce determination and refusal to back down, all of these 12 women were not just ahead of their own times, but responsible for shaping ours.
It was the first women's rights convention to be chaired by a woman, a step that was considered to be radical at the time. [57] That meeting was followed by the Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850, the first women's rights convention to be organized on a statewide basis, which also endorsed women's suffrage. [58]
Republican women here won’t talk publicly about this. They’ve been told to shut up. But their own party doesn’t support women having an equal role or say. | Opinion